You can tank CAFE regulations for that.  Economy and emissions requirements are, in part, based on the footprint of the car.

AM radio has a naturally longer reach than FM signals. In some remote and mountainous parts of the country it is likely that FM is limited while AM has better reach.  The idea behind wanting to keep AM is to maximize the reach of emergency broadcasts.

You are a couple of decades behind on battery technology there. Back in 90s it wasn’t uncommon for phone batteries to be based on nickel-cadmium (NiCad) chemistry. That battery technology suffered what was known as a “memory effect” in that recharging it prematurely could cause it to lose some of its capacity. …

What are you talking about? In this context, the Chevrolet SS was a sports sedan, not that SS stood for sport sedan. It was just the model name. It also shared nothing with the Impala of the time. This isn’t even the first time that Chevrolet took a trim level and turned it into it’s own model, see Malibu for example.

It was easy to cut inventory and raise prices when parts were literally unavailable. Yes, the manufacturers learned they could make higher profits with less production when the market is artificially constrained which forced everyone to operate that way. Now that we are far less constrained for supply, it only takes a…

There’s added cost and complexity of having both a battery, electric drive unit, and a full gas unit/transmission (depending on if the gas unit can directly drive the wheels). However, there is also added cost and weight in having a full range battery. Personally, I feel the former is our current best option as it…

While it only consisted of 1 track and just a handful of cars, where would GTHD rank on this list?  I spend plenty of hours trying to eek out every tick I could on that track.

The letter is a legal requirement.

Correct.  A 10 second car is any car that can run the 1/4 between 10.00 and 10.99 because it did so BEFORE the timer ticked to 11.

There are also a couple of other factors that could have dictated the size limitation of this ride.
1. Was this ride already implemented in Japan? If so, it could have been originally designed for the 5-95 percentile of the Japanese population which is statistically much smaller than the US population and then carried…

What was this trying to achieve that the TSX Wagon didn’t? The TSX Wagon is somewhat timeless, and was effectively using the same drivetrain (slightly retuned) as the contemporary CR-V with matching fuel economy.

There is now even some consensus brewing that PHEV may be the better long term solution. It will allow for smaller battery packs since you only need the 40-70 mile range for daily driving. The added weight of the range extending engine is then less than what is required for the amount of additional battery needed for…

A lot of those lawsuits are allowed to go through because there is evidence of a company knowing that something is harmful but hiding such evidence to be allowed to continue to sell said product.

That’s because the game was released on PS3 prior to Sony having a fully working software based PS2 emulator.  This was done during the era in which PS2 games were actually being recompiled for the PS3 and enhanced to take advantage of higher framerates, resolution, and widescreen support (basically what this project…

Gas taxes are paid every time gas is purchased.

The Hummer SUV hasn’t released yet, just the truck.

Stops for stolen vehicles have always been a high tension situation.  The officers do not know who is in the car.  They only know that the plates on said car come back reported as stolen and thus have good reason to believe that they catching someone in the midst of committing the crime.  There is a high chance that…

With the architecture similarities between PS4 and PS5, I imagine that the goal is to carry over purchases into the future as that’s what they have done between those two generations.  The PS5 architecture was in part designed with PS4 BC in mind, and I can’t seem them changing that for PS6.  (You know it is at least…

Anymore, SUVs are what is being made. It’s always been the domestic manufacturers that develop the police variants based on production models. If you look at domestic manufacturers that leaves just the Charger.

Kirk’s 1965 Corvette in the Star Trek reboot. The Corvette helps represent the bad boy, rebellious behavior. It also is a call back to the history of the early space program where astronauts were known to drive Corvettes.